Ronald Rychlak - Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism

DISINFORMATION

FORMER SPY CHIEF REVEALS SECRET STRATEGIES FOR UNDERMINING FREEDOM, ATTACKING RELIGION, AND PROMOTING TERRORISM

Lt. Gen.

ION MIHAI PACEPA
AND Prof. RONALD J. RYCHLAK

ADVANCE PRAISE

Disinformation is a history of a still-hidden part of the Cold Warthe part hidden as deeply as the KGBs moles in Western intelligence serviceswhich has to be studied to truly understand how communism sought to subvert everything in its path. Like Whittaker Chambers Witness , any study of the Cold War without Disinformation would be profoundly incomplete.

JED BABBIN , former deputy undersecretary of defense and author of In the Words of Our Enemies and Inside the Asylum: How the U.N. and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think

Challenging false histories and subtle slanders, Pacepa and Rychlak take us on a journey through the Empire of Disinformation. Here we learn the theory and practice of the Big Lie deployed against Christianityagainst popes and bishops. We learn how the Kremlin, even after the collapse of Communism, continues its war against the West; we learn how dezinformatsiya is used to inspire a deep hatred of the Jews in order to mobilize Islam as a battering ram against Israel and Americato the benefit of Russia. If you want to understand the forces at work behind the decline of Christianity and the rise of militant Islam, you must read this book.

JEFFREY NYQUIST , author Origins of the Fourth World War , columnist, and radio talk show host on WIBG (Ocean City, NJ)

As a Jew growing up in New York, I hated even hearing Pope Pius XIIs name. But after seven years of investigating and 46,000 pages of pertinent documents collected, I came to the startling discovery that Pius XII was revered and praised as a hero by all Jews during, and just after, the war. If you want to know how 1 billion people were tricked into hating him, read this book by General Ion Mihai Pacepa and Professor Ron Rychlak about the Kremlins still-secret dezinformatsiya . That immense machinery accomplished the worst character assassination of the twentieth century, and caused great strain between Jews and Catholics. But let me warn you: this book is scary! When you read it, you will discover how you were maneuvered like a chess piece to achieve a specific goal. You will also learn that the dezinformatsiya enterprise is still dividing the Judeo-Christian world with deadly international consequences.

GARY KRUPP , chairman of Pave the Way Foundation, dedicated to reconciling relations among the worlds religions

Written by two foremost experts, this book is an eye-opening, demystifying work of political and historical archeology, a passionate and captivating endeavor to highlight the communist techniques of cynical deception, vicious plots, and perversely skillful concoction of propaganda legends masquerading as historical evidence. The authors display impressive erudition and unique insights into the deep secrets of the Soviet and post-Soviet disinformation machine. As a former highest-level intelligence officer within the Soviet Bloc who broke with the system for moral reasons and courageously exposed its terrorist underpinnings, Ion Mihai Pacepa is a formidable witness to and a respected analyst of the communist intrigues, schemes, and manipulations.

VLADIMIR TISMNEANU , author of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism , director of the University of Marylands Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, and president of Romanias Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes

DISINFORMATION

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Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald J. Rychlak

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DEDICATION

To Mary Lou, who helped me look at my past through American eyes.
LT. GEN. ION MIHAI PACEPA

To my daughter Lindsey and all the Lindseys in my life.
PROFESSOR RONALD RYCHLAK

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA , The Life of Reason , vol. 1, 1905

In Russia, duck, aside from its normal meaning, is a term for disinformation.
When the ducks are flying means that the press is publishing disinformation.
PAVEL SUDOPLATOV , Deputy Chief of Soviet Foreign Intelligence
Special Tasks (Memoirs), 1994

AUTHORS NOTE

For the transliteration of Russian, we have followed the guidelines of the United States Board on Geographic Names, with the exception that iy and yy have been condensed into a simple y when they occur at the end of first and last names of individuals. A few familiar deviations have been retained, such as Yuri Andropov.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

T HIS REMARKABLE BOOK will change the way you look at intelligence, foreign affairs, the press, and much else besides. Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking defector we have ever had from a hostile intelligence service. As chief of Romanian intelligence he was for many years in the key meetings with heads of state and a participant in some of the most sensitive discussions by our enemies during the Cold War.

For starters, General Pacepa tells us that intelligence collection is rather far down the list of what Romanian, and other Soviet Bloc, intelligence services were doing all those years. Intelligence collection, he says, has always been more or less irrelevant. I might add that whether you agree or not that this is accurate for the period of the Cold War, much intelligence collection is done today by hackers sitting at keyboards, not by case officers fine-tuning the location of dead drops.

So what were Romanian and Soviet spies spending their time on in the Cold War years? General Pacepa would say framing, i.e. rewriting history and manipulating records, documents, etc., to bring that about. To what end this dezinformatsiya ? Oh, little matters like using press leaks to destroy the reputation of a national or religious leader, engendering the spread of anti-Semitism, building up resentment against the United States or Israel in the Arab world. Soviet leader and long-time KGB head Yuri Andropov, apparently a real aficionado of dezinformatsiya , put it this way: [ Dezinformatsiya is] like cocaine. If you sniff once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it every day though, it will make you an addicta different man.

So, one might say, its understandable during the Cold War, but why now? And why are many governments in the Mideast essentially doing the same thing, such as spreading the crazy stories about 9/11that it was the CIA, or the Mossad? I would imagine its fairly straightforward: dictators need enemies to help them have more reason to suppress their people. And were very convenient.